20Th Century category: 9982 books
by Christopher B. Emery
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
From January 1986 until March 1994, Chris Emery was part of one of the most unique services in the U.S. government—an usher in the White House.
For more than 200 years, a small office has operated on the State Floor of the White House Executive Residence. Known as the Usher's Office, whose...
by Barry Goldwater
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Barry Goldwater is a principled politican in a world where the species seems endangered, a man of profound convcition about government and law, the grand old man of the Grand Old Party, respected as much by those who disagree with him as by those who share his views. Goldwater is at once a revealing...
Speaking Out
A Congressman's Lifelong Fight Against Bigotry, Famine, and War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
In his 22 years as an Illinois congressman and in the years since he left office, Paul Findley has fought to eradicate famine, end wars, and eliminate bigotry in U.S. foreign policy. This sweeping political memoir opens with Findley’s early days in Pittsfield, Illinois-where he was first elected...
Provenance
How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
A tautly paced investigation of one the 20th century's most audacious art frauds, which generated hundreds of forgeries-many of them still hanging in prominent museums and private collections today
Provenance is the extraordinary narrative of one of the most far-reaching and elaborate deceptions...
The Three-Year Swim Club
The Untold Story of Maui's Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The New York Times bestselling inspirational story of impoverished children who transformed themselves into world-class swimmers.
In 1937, a schoolteacher on the island of Maui challenged a group of poverty-stricken sugar plantation kids to swim upstream against the current of their circumstance....
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
*Includes pictures of Reagan, Thatcher, and important people, places, and events in their lives.*Includes an in depth analysis of both leaders' political philosophies and records.*Includes a Bibliography on Reagan for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents"The nine most terrifying words in the...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
*Includes pictures of Helen Keller and important people in her life.*Includes Helen's quotes on politics, religion, inspiration, and more. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents"Most people measure their happiness in terms of physical pleasure and material possession....
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
*Includes pictures of Khrushchev and important people, places, and events in his life. *Includes a Table of ContentsWe will bury you. Nikita KhrushchevA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of historys most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
*Includes a full length biography of Ayn Rand that examines her life, works, philosophy, and legacy.*Includes a primer on Atlas Shrugged that will quickly bring readers up to speed on the plot, characters, themes, symbols, and philosophy of Rands classic novel. *Includes pictures of Rand and important...
Thy Will Be Done
The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
A “blistering exposé” of the USA’s secret history of financial, political, and cultural exploitation of Latin America in the 20th century, with a new introduction (Publishers Weekly).
What happened when a wealthy industrialist and a visionary evangelist unleashed forces that joined to...
Smyrna, September 1922
One American's Mission to Rescue Victims of the 20th Century's First Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
The harrowing story of a Methodist Minister and a principled American naval officer who helped rescue more than 250,000 refugees during the genocide of Armenian and Greek Christians—a tale of bravery, morality, and politics, published to coincide with the genocide’s centennial.
The year...
Voyagers of the Titanic
Passengers, Sailors, Shipbuilders, Aristocrats, and the Worlds They Came From
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
“An astonishing work.”
—Julian Fellowes, Creator and Executive Producer of “Downton Abbey”
“A book well worthy of marking the centenary of the crystal-clear night when the immense ship slid to her terrible doom.”
—Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor...
Inventing Modern
Growing up with X-Rays, Skyscrapers, and Tailfins
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2003
Modern is a word much used, but hard to pin down. In Inventing Modern, John H. Lienhard uses that word to capture the furious rush of newness in the first half of 20th-century America. An unexpected world emerges from under the more familiar Modern. Beyond the airplanes, radios, art deco, skyscrapers,...
Tinder Box
The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
This the 100th anniversary of one of worst man-made disasters of the 20th century. When the Iroquois Theatre opened in Chicago on November 23, 1903, it was considered one of the grandest structures of its day, a monument to modern design and technology, as well as "absolutely fireproof."...